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King George V and Queen Mary, Balmoral, Scotland. 1930s
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janetsnakehole02 · 2 years
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This is probably my last post on the whole “Liz is dead” situation but I want to talk about my great grandmother, who is currently 92 years old. When I was growing up, hell even now, she’d tell me a lot about her own stories, mostly about how terrifying life was under both the British Raj and Nizam rule (her side of my family is from Hyderabad - Google the Nizams and the Razakars if you’ve never heard about them, that’s a whole other thing of its own).
Something I remember very clearly is her telling me about this one song she was forced to sing in her school - she went to a Christian convent school - and the song was about the greatness of “George Prabhu and Mary Rani,” aka George V, Elizabeth II’s grandfather. Recently my mom was able to film her singing this song so that we could listen to the lyrics, which are originally in Telugu, and roughly translated it means “we’re singing in honor of George and Mary, who are the rulers of India and have brought great fortune to India, and we see them as our father and mother.”
This is just a really difficult reminder that when we’re talking about why Elizabeth II and the royal family don’t deserve our respect or condolences, many of us have very personal stories that run deep through our families. “But she was a mother, a grandmother, a person” and I don’t care because she and her family were in the business of dehumanizing and erasing the identities of millions of other mothers, other grandmothers, other PEOPLE. Why else would my great grandmother be forced to sing a song in their honor? “But she wasn’t responsible for India” fair enough, her darling grandfather had a great time doing that, but how about you go and talk to Kenya? Or anyone in Africa? Or the Caribbean? I’m sick and tired of being told to “not speak ill of the dead” when REALLY I and millions of others should be getting an apology from anyone who wants to “praise her legacy” and talk about how “revolutionary” she was.
edit: i got the george’s mixed up before. george v is elizabeth ii’s grandfather. george vi is her father.
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captainsamta · 8 months
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Something I had done years ago on A4 size paper. I think I skipped a few due to lack of space. Kings and Queens of England (after king Henry IV)
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King George V and his son Prince George . They are easily the Most Handsome Royal Men ever 😘
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Best tweet about this that I've seen thus far -
https: //twitter.com/ stavvers/ status/ 1567861075 189678084 (without the spaces obvs)(thought you'd appreciate it, we love a bit of history)
ex-fucking-SCUSE me?
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lulu-cat-princess · 1 year
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If you want to know who was on the British throne when a ghost died
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darlinggeorgiedear · 3 months
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A Court at Buckingham Palace, 1931 by Sir John Lavery
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empress-alexandra · 3 months
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King George V of the United Kingdom, when he was Duke of York, 1890s.
B&W courtesy of @george-v-and-mary I hope you like it ;)
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romanovsonelastdance · 6 months
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King George V with his wife, eldest son, and only daughter.
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– 𝑨 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒂, 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒏, 𝟏𝟖𝟔𝟕. 💐🤍
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royalwomeninhistory · 12 days
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Queen Victoria with her son & heir the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), grandson the Duke of York (later George V), and great-grandson Prince Edward of York (later Edward VIII; Duke of Windsor), at Osborne House, 5 August 1899.
According to Frances Donaldson: “When they were children Prince Edward and Prince Albert were also terrified in the presence of their great-grandmother … they would frequently burst into tears in her presence for no obvious reason, which ‘both saddened and annoyed the Queen, who would ask, with the petulance of old age, what she had done wrong now. It also mortified the children’s parents’”. (Edward VIII: The Road to Abdication, p.17)
Source: Royal Collection (photographs), @kingedwardviii (text)
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Queen Mary showed keen interest in white wool evening dresses and matching wrap by Paquin, of France, when she visited the International Wool Exhibition in London, September 28, 1949
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duchesssoflennox · 3 months
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King George V was very fond of his only daughter, Princess Mary, who was born in 1897. He called her his "little ray of sunshine" and gave her the title of Princess Royal in 1932. He also supported her charitable work during the First World War and her marriage to Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood, in 1922. Princess Mary was loyal and dutiful to her father and was deeply affected by his death in 1936. She remained close to her mother, Queen Mary, and her brother George VI until their deaths. 🤍🦋
Thanks for asking @bhoooo34 ❤️‍🩹
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1869 -> 2024:Photography, Princesses of Wales and their children. Like Catherine, the late Queen Alexandra (then The Princess of Wales) had an interest in photography and took hundreds of photos throughout her life.
-> c. 1869 Alexandra with her children Prince Albert, Prince George (later George V), Princess Louise and Princess Victoria at Abergeldie Castle, Scotland. ->2024 Catherine with her children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis at Adelaide Cottage, Windsor, England.
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King George V, stunningly handsome. Those huge blue eyes and that kingly beard. Bro was photogenic
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for-valour · 8 months
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London, 1914. King George V and Queen Mary at the Y.M.C.A., Great Russell Street. To the left of the King, a Mr. Vergo, Secretary General; to the far right, Lord Kinnaird, President of the Y.M.C.A.
OH YES and standing next to his mama, let’s not forget an adorable 18/19 year-old Prince Bertie! He looks so shy and awkward, what a heartbreaker 🥹
source: Bibliotheque Nationale de France
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